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People rightly balk at this, but this is the idea at the root of Lindbeck’s postliberal theology that formed at least two generations of the leading theologians in the US. It was picked up by evangelicals in the late 1990s/early 2000s and became central to evangelical theology. https://twitter.com/markhmcentire/status/1342207461902716932
Of course it has roots in Barth, but it’s the version of Barth one finds in Hans Frei and those associated with the KBSNA in that period.
In 1995 Lindbeck spoke at Wheaton College and said the following:
"All reality is interpreted in this same scriptural light—the biblical world absorbs all other worlds. ...
"All reality is interpreted in this same scriptural light—the biblical world absorbs all other worlds. ...
"To the degree that Scripture is the embedded guided for the social construction of reality, the universe itself is perceived, as Calvin put it, through scriptural lenses or spectacles."
"Less metaphorically expressed, Christians use the Bible’s stories, images, categories and concepts to interpret all that is."
You have it all there: as the spectacle by which one views the world, scripture absorbs all of reality, bringing all culture and society into its hermeneutical orbit.
Evangelicals just ate that up.
Evangelicals just ate that up.
